SAGA OF A SMALL BIRD
After Wild Ride,
Rockefeller Owl
To Fly Free Tonight
By LIBBY CUDMORE • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com
ONEONTA – Rocky, the Saw-whet owl found inside "Daddy Al" Dick's Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, will be released this evening into a conifer forest near Saugerties, where she has spent the last week rehabilitating after her three-day, 170 mile journey from Oneonta to Manhattan.
When we picked Rocky up she was struggling,” said Ellen Kalish, Ravensbeard Wildlife Center Director and Founder. “We believe it had been about three days since she ate or drank anything. The first order of business was to give her fluids and feed her all the mice she could eat."
During her recovery, Kalish was also surprised to discover that Rocky was actually female.